Community Dental Health

Community Dental Health is published by FDI World Dental Press Ltd and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Dental Health and Care Utilization, Oral microbiology and periodontitis research and Dental Research and COVID-19, together about 56.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The journal is concerned with dental public health and related subjects. Dental public health is the science and the art of preventing oral disease, promoting oral health, and improving the quality of life through the organised efforts of society. The discipline covers a wide range and includes such topics as: -oral epidemiology- oral health services research- preventive dentistry - especially in relation to communities- oral health education and promotion- clinical research - with particular emphasis on the care of special groups- behavioural sciences related to dentistry- decision theory- quality of life- risk analysis- ethics and oral health economics- quality assessment. The journal publishes scientific articles on the relevant fields, review articles, discussion papers, news items, and editorials. It is of interest to dentists working in dental public health and to other professionals concerned with disease prevention, health service planning, and health promotion throughout the world. In the case of epidemiology of oral diseases the Journal prioritises national studies unless local studies have major methodological innovations or information of particular interest.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

1.11LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

1.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.27LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.38LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

46LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

23OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

114OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.38OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

7.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

3.85%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

55LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

FDI World Dental Press Ltd

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

1984

ISSN

0265-539X

Electronic ISSN

2515-1746

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗LetPub